1、湖北省宜昌市学年高一下学期期末英语试题绝密启用前湖北省宜昌市2018-2019学年高一下学期期末英语试题试卷副标题考试范围：xxx；考试时间：100分钟；命题人：xxx题号一二三四五六总分得分注意事项：1答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息2请将答案正确填写在答题卡上第I卷（选择题)请点击修改第I卷的文字说明评卷人得分一、阅读理解 Editors note: Whether people are overworked recently made headlines when several internet company bosses said the only way for empl
2、oyees to achieve success is through harder work and longer hours. Forum readers share their opinions.CeciliaWorking too many hours only means you arc time-wasting and inefficient(低效的).This means it takes you longer to produce something than someone else.A good manager knows how to encourage his empl
3、oyees to work in their full ability instead of expecting them to work late even if they dont have something to do. People who stay in their office until late hate their jobs and it affects their performance, as well as other ways of their life.RosemaryOverworking is just modem slavery. In many count
4、ries, overworking would be attacked because it shows poor work performance, and the boss would prefer you work in a better way 7 hours and then go back home than 8 hours with poor performance.Nervy Nowadays, its hard for a young person to build a good future, for pressures are on his or her shoulder
5、s: housing, children, parents, themselves, etc. But everyone must keep working hard to have them on the way to the good future, which is not certain. Whats sure is that if youre lazy and dont work hard, no good future will come.SunnyI dont think anyone wants to work overtime The fact is the competit
6、ion is so extreme if you dont work hard someone will easily and willingly replace you, especially in the IT industry. Employees are told they need to work longer hours or they wont get raised. It is time to give up the culture of overworking.1What will happen if Cecilia is forced to overwork?AShe wi
7、ll perform to her full ability.BShe will feel unhappy to do it.CShe will ask the employer to do it.DShe will encourage other workers to do it.2Whose idea is a little bit different from the others?ACecilia. BRosemary.CNervy DSunny.3In which part of the newspaper can you find the passage?ACulture. BBu
8、siness.CLifestyle. DOpinion. It was early in the spring about 15 years ago when I was a young police reporter, driving to a scene I didnt want to see. A man had accidentally backed his pickup truck over his baby granddaughter in the driveway of the family home.As I arrived. I saw a while-haired man
9、in cotton work clothes standing near a truck, looking totally confused, he was trying to answer the reporters questions. Mostly he was only moving his lips, blinking and choking up.After a while the reporters gave up oil him mid fo1lowed the police into the small white house. A few minutes later, wi
10、th all the details in my notebook and a three-by-five photo in my jacket pocket I went toward the kitchen where die police had said the body was.I had brought a camera in with me. Entering the kitchen, I came upon this scene.On a table lay the tiny body, wrapped in a clear white sheet. Somehow the g
11、randfather had managed to stay away from the crowd He was sitting on a chair beside the table, looking helplessly at the dead body. As I watched, the grandfather slowly leaned forward, held the little in his arms and remained still.In that moment I recognized the makings of a prize-winning news phot
12、ograph. I raised the camera.Every element of the picture was perfect I dont know how many seconds I stood there, unable to press that shutter (快门). I fully realized the powerful story-telling value that photo would have, and my professional conscience (良心) told me to lake it. Yet I couldnt make my h
13、and move and break into the poor mans inner sadness.At last I lowered the camera and moved away quietly with doubt about my suitability for the journalistic profession (职业). Now, sometimes, as Im watching news, I remember that day.I still feel right about what I did.4Why did the author drive to the
14、mans house?ATo comfort the poor man.BTo perform a duty.CTo offer some help.DTo get a prize-winning photo.5What do we know about the grandfather in the passage?AHe was deeply sorry for the loss of his granddaughter.BHe didnt want to answer the reporters questions.CHe shared little about the accident
15、with the authorDHe purposely created the scene for the authors photo.6Why did the author give up taking the picture at last?ABecause he preferred better photos.BBecause the grandfather noticed him.CBecause professional training told him not to.DBecause his conscience told him to do so.7What is the a
16、uthors purpose in writing the story?ATo describe a heart-broken scene.BTo tell one of his experiences.CTo learn from other photo takers.DTo persuade people to pity others The Southern Ocean is well known for its storms, which can sink ships and cause flooding on distant islands. Now, a new study sug
17、gests the biggest waves there already the worlds largestare getting bigger, thanks to faster winds.For the past 33 years, global satellites have been collecting data on ocean wavesand the winds that drive them. But explaining the data is difficult: different satellites can give different wind speeds
18、.To reduce those differences, Ian Young and Augustines Ribald , at the University of Melbourne in Australia, compared information from different satellites and corrected their data against an independent data set collected by a global network of buoys (浮标) floating in the ocean. When they were done,
19、 a trend stood out: since 1985, ocean wind speeds in most of the world have increased between 1 centimeter and 2 centimeters per second per year, leading to increases in wave height in many places.In the Southern Ocean, the trend is particularly strong. For example, although wind speeds there have i
20、ncreased by 2 centimeters per second each year, the speed of the top 10% fastest winds has increased by 5 centimeters per second per year. And although average (平均的) wave heights there have increased by just 0.3 centimeters per year, the top 10% highest has grown by an average of 1 centimeter per ye
21、ar a growth of 30 centimeters since 1985, they report today in Science.Young and Ribald have done a good job of cross-checking and double-checking from the three different types of satellite instrument, says Ole Johan at the University of Bergen in Norway. But, he adds, it might be “optimistic” to t
22、hink that the data now contain no errors Confirming the ire I likely require more work, he believes.8What caused the worlds largest waves in the Southern Ocean?AThe satellites BThe storms CThe winds DThe floods9Which of the following can best explain “trend” underlined in Paragraph 3?Adeep thought B
23、novel method Cspecial goal Dgeneral direction10What can be learned from the study in the Southern Ocean?AWave heights have risen by 2 centimeters since 1985.BWinds speeds have grown by 30 centimeters each year.CThe top wave heights have slowly fallen since 1985.DThe top fastest wind speeds have been
24、 on the rise.11What does Ole Johans attitude towards the new study?AHe thinks highly of it.BHe takes no interest in it.CHe shows concern about it.DHe says no to it. The market for ride sharing is starting to look like a pie-eating competition where the prize is more pie.Lift went public on March 29,
25、 and the stock (股票) almost immediately went into a quick drop as money-providers noticed that the company hadnt made any money yet and didnt have any clear plans to do so.On April 11，Umber went public in the stock market too. The company said it commands more than 50 percent of the ride-hailing (叫车服
26、务) market in America and Europe and had an operating loss of S3 billion last year, about three times as much as Lift lost.Think about that: those two companies lost nearly 4 billion in a single year transporting people.Whats happening in the ride-sharing market is special in a number of ways.First,
27、it offers what is called “network effects”: The more riders you have, the easier it is to attract and send drivers, and the more drivers you have, the more riders you will attract. Markets that display network effects prefer to benefit a few players, and possibly only one.Second, ride sharing has lo
28、w changing costs. Its simple lo get both apps on your phones, and many riders and drivers do just that, which means fierce competition over every single ride.There are only two ways that the price war can end. Either Umber and Lift come to some son of agreement to slop selling their services below c
29、ost, or at least one of the companies may need to die. And so the pie-eating competition may continue forever, until everyone bursts. There may finally be no route to money for these companies, no payoff tor money-providers. The number of major ride-sharing companies may not be two or even one, but
30、none.12What do Umber and Lift have in common?AGoing public in stock market.BEnjoying a financially bright future.CEntering for the pie-making competition.DBenefiting the money-providers.13What do we know about network effects?AMore network companies will survive.BMore riders will attract more driven
31、.CMore players will crowd the marketDMore drivers will give up the use of apps.14What is one way out to end the price war?AArriving at a win-win agreement.BPutting more money into the market.CSelling services below cost.DHaving free access to either company.15What can be the best title for the text?ARiding-hailing market, were coining.BUmber or Lift, who cares?CLocked in a price war only two ways out.DThe prize for a pie-eating competition.评卷人得分二、七选五 Good time management allows an individual to complete more in a shiner period of lime and leads lo career success.16.Make a pl
